well, i should be covered for the blogging for the day because of the pictures i posted previously. you know, a picture paints a thousand words and all that, but i know i can't get off that easy.
this morning pam was up with the naval acadimy cadets around 0615, but although i heard them begin their hour of p.t., i continued counting sheep and sawing logs in and out of the cadence counting. when i got up at 0715 they were cheerily marching off the feild to their breakfasts.
pam and i headed jiminny towards the city dock and over to citydock coffee house, complete with wifi. it was sure nuff pleasent to sit at a coffee house through a redeye (coffee with espresso) to wake up, a couple shots of espresso straight up to keep going, and an iced coffee for lunch. i like coffee shops.
back at cricket we got a few "no pressure" chores done. pam swabbed th' sole (cabin floor), and i put up the tarp and replaced 3 fire extinguishers. we hailed the holding tank pumper boat on channel 17, and got the poop pumped out for only 5 bucks! i pulled the hose off the boat a little prematurely and had to wash shit out of the scuppers. phew. but hey... i'm a true sailor now!
we went back into town this evening so that pam could wifi-iron some aslis work stuff out. we brought owen along since he hadn't been off the boat in well over a week. he doesn't love being handed over the rail and into the dory, but all in all he enjoyed bring on land, once it stopped pitching for him. he and i walked to the maryland capitol building (which was once our nation's capitol building for a short while) and sat on a bench beneath a frowning forefather statue. owen enjoyed chasing a few fireflies as evening came. he gets lots of comments and attention when you walk down the streets with him on your shoulders or walking at the end of his leash!
after pam met us, and hung out at our little happy spot for a while, we walked into the citydock business area for ice cream. enter glen. he's a thin man sitting on a bench in rags and peppered whiskers. he said in a very raspy voice (ever heard of tom waits?), "i've never seen a cat go walkin' round here." we stopped. he told us through his bad teeth (one of them sticking straight out) about the old days in the 70s when his ma n pa had a dozen or more cats, and they didn't have any mice problems and the cats could sleep in the basement in the winter, and they'd cover the davenport, but now ma n pa n the cats is gone and he's got lots of mice runnin around th' place, and he thinks they get in thru a certain spot and his friend steve is coming soon to help him hook up a tv, if glen won't chicken out and blow him off this time, and, and... i think he needed someone to listen for a while, so we did. for over an hour. off he went about this guy he listens to on the radio who used to say the world would end in may of 1993, and when it didn't he sort of dissappeared, but is back now preaching that Jesus'll come back in the summer of 2011. he wasn't sure whether to believe him this time, but couldn't help listening to him, and pondering the things he says. i know from what i'm saying that glen doesn't sound very bright, but he was bright in spirit! (and he actually made some very intellegent metaphores through his ramblings). i like glen. he said if we really knew that Jesus was to return in 2011 it'd be reason to rejoice, because then we could get our ducks in a row. i said it's ok if we don't have our ducks in a row because God loves us with crooked ducks, and gives us grace. i don't know if he heard me, but i know i heard him, and will rejoice because we're given time to realize who the Great Duck Arranger is! no matter who we are, and how confused we feel about who's right! glen had to quick use the public restroom before it closed, and we had to get our ice cream before they closed. glen said no thank you for the ice cream, but if we wanted to listen to this preacher man, he'd be on the radio about now, as far to the right as the radio dial could go.
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